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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES, February  19,  1863.— Read 
first  and  second  times,  placed  on  the  calendar  and  ordered  to  be 
printed. 

[By  Mr.  Hilton,  from  Military  Committee.] 


A.   BILL 

To  be  entitled  An  Act  in  relation  to  Substitutes  in  the  Army. 

1  Section  1 ,  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do 

2  enact,    That  so  much  of  An  Act,  approved   16th  April,  1862,  as 
S     provides  "  that  persons  not  liable  for  duty  may  be  received  as' 

4  substitutes  for  those  who  are,  under  such  regulations  as  may  be 

5  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War,"  is  hereby  repealed, 

1  Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  in  all  cases  where  persons 

2  not  liable  for  military  duty  have  been  received  as  substitutes  for 

3  those  who  were,  in  which  such  substitutes  have  deserted  or  shall 

4  hereafter  desert,  the  obligation  of   the  principal  himself  shall 

5  revive  upon  the  desertion  of  the  substitute  being  established  and 


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6  attested,  under  such  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the 

7  Secretary  of  War. 

1  Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted^  That  in  all  cases  where,  under 

2  existing  laws,  any  substitute  would  be  liable  to  enrollment  for 

3  military  service,  if  he  were  not  already  in  the  army,  his  princi- 

4  pal  is  hereby  declared  to  be  subject  to  such  enrollment. 


